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Hand baggage only

Hand baggage only is our best value for when you want to travel light and make a quick getaway from the airport. You get the same great British Airways service but without a checked baggage allowance or free seat selection. It’s available on all direct British Airways shorthaul flights.

If you’re travelling on a hand baggage only fare, your flight does not include a checked baggage allowance but if you are travelling with infants or children you may still check a fully collapsible pushchair (stroller) and a car seat.

Allowances on British Airways

Including OpenSkies and CityFlyer

We can't make packing fun but with our inclusive baggage allowances at least you'll have one less thing to worry about.Our free baggage allowance uses a piece system, with a maximum weight for each piece of luggage. Sorry, it's not possible to split the maximum weight across more than one piece of baggage, unless your baggage allowance is more than one piece of baggage.

Executive Club Gold and Silver members and oneworld Emerald and Sapphire members receive additional checked-baggage benefits when flying on British Airways flights.

Executive Club Gold and oneworld Emerald members

An additional free checked bag in any class of travel for the cardholder and any customer travelling on the same booking (excludes hand-baggage only fares and group rate bookings).

A weight allowance of 32kg (71lb) per checked bag in any class of travel for the cardholder only.

Executive Club Silver and oneworld Sapphire members

A checked baggage allowance of two pieces in any World Traveller, Euro Traveller and Domestic cabin for the cardholder and any customer travelling on the same booking (excludes hand-baggage only fares and group rate bookings).

A weight allowance of 32kg (71lb) per checked bag in any class of travel for the cardholder only.

If your journey includes flights in more than one class, the more generous allowance will apply to your whole journey (unless the flights are on separate bookings then each class's allowance will apply to the individual flight). For example:

You fly from Manchester to London in UK Domestic and connect from London to Rome in Club Europe. The Club Europe allowance applies to your entire journey.

You fly from London to Dubai in World Traveller and return in World Traveller Plus. The World Traveller Plus allowance applies to your entire journey.

Allowances on other airlines

Baggage allowances and policies can vary by airline — even if you buy your flights through ba.com. If your journey includes a flight with an airline other than British Airways, your checked baggage allowance may be different:

If your entire journey is with another airline, their checked baggage allowance will apply.

If your journey includes connecting flights with more than one airline, the checked baggage policy of the airline that operates the longer leg will apply. For example, if you fly with American Airlines from New York to London and connect onto British Airways to Amsterdam, the leg with American Airlines is longer and their baggage policy applies to the whole journey.

For details of checked baggage allowances on American Airlines, Finnair, Iberia, Japan Airlines and US Airways, please follow the links below.